Brent Cameron - Rethinking Education Keynote 2009
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"Brent Cameron is a profoundly insightful visionary
who has manifested his insights in the world for more than 25 years.
Cameron follows in the footsteps of early post-modern educators Maria
Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, and A. S. Neill, and has evolved a
coherent, comprehensive approach to learner-centered education that is
exactly right for the early 21st century. Through his personal
engagement with teens and his inclusion of new technologies, Cameron
has evolved the SelfDesign educational paradigm beyond Steiner,
Montessori, and Neill in that it is more inclusive of the whole child,
more internally consistent with its core values, and more adapted for
the way we live today in increasingly post-modern societies." "My relationship with Brent Cameron began when we both
spoke at the 'Wisdom Conference' at Mount Madonna, CA in 2006... I
fully appreciate Brent’s actualizing of his vision of what learning
really is, as opposed to what 'education' has been... Brent has
written a most significant book. This book is not based on ideas or
visions only, but on the hard facts of practicing what he has been
preaching, on experiment, on actually going out on a limb to show what
young people can do when they are liberated from traditional paradigms
of education... I have heard Brent Cameron speak. I have read his
book with great interest, page by page. I have been following his
vision, and I know he is on the right track." "Brent Cameron has dedicated his life to the study of
how children learn, and how to support learners and their families in
creating a path true to their values and interests, which results in
learners having a reason to engage in their own educational process. I
do not believe his intent was to cure some social ill, however. He
started his path because of his own unconditional love and dedication
to his daughter, and along the way he discovered truths about
learning, children, and how to support parents, that allow the family
unit as an integrated whole to experience peace." |